Chapter 2: A deadly sickness (Vicky is six years old in this chapter.)

It started off like any normal day with me, Tori, Rhonda, and Valdis running around playing. "You'll never catch me!" I yell behind me while I run with my red dress blowing in the wind. "Haha will see about that!" Rhonda says as she jumps over a rock.

"Wait up you two!" Valdis says from where her and Tori were running way behind me and Rhonda. "I'm gonna beat you! I'm gonna beat you! Haha!" I say. A few more feet and I was at our tree house. "I win! Yay!" I climb up into the tree house and frown. "Huh? Tori?"

"Yes Vicky?" Tori asks as she climbs up after Rhonda. "What happened to the potions that you made?"

Tori looks at me in confusion,"Aren't they here?"

"No there gone!"

Tori runs over and looks to where the potions were and seeing the spot empty stomps her foot and yells,"Who took them! Me and papa spent hours making those!"

Valdis walks over to a sack and opens it and then starts crying,"Vicky! Vicky!"

I walk over followed by Tori and Rhonda and look into the now empty sack. "Someone took the apples as well!" I yell angrily.

Rhonda goes over to the chest and opens it and gasps,"Someone stole the daggers as also!"

"Let's go outside and see if we can find any clues." I say and climb back down. Once everyone was on the ground we start looking but after who knows how long we give up and Valdis starts crying again. "Vicky what are we going to do?"

"I don't know Valdis." I signed. We stand there looking at each other for a few seconds when all off a sudden the town bully Garrett walks up to us with a nasty smirk on his ugly face."Looking for something losers?" He asks.

I glare at him,"What would you know about it?"

"Hahaha! Well it just so happens I was here early this morning going through things and I sold all of it. Hahaha"

"You did what?" Tori yells getting up in his face. "How dare you steal our stuff!"

"And what are what are you going to do about it punk! You're just a little girl with two small kitty cats as friends! Ha!"

Valdis hinds behind Rhonda while I yelled back at him,"Just you wait. You are going to get what is coming to you jerk face!"

"Shut up!" He yells and the next thing I know I'm lying on the grass with a bleeding face. He had hit me breaking my nose. Tears come into my eyes and trying to stop them which fails.

"Awww is the kitty going to cry? Hahaha!"

At that Tori swings at him but he jumps out of the way and kicks her in the stomach. "Ouch!"

"Hahahaha!" He laughs again and then runs away.

Later at the Cheydinhal Sanctuary. "Damn that Garrett!" My father yells when I told him what happened. "He's completely out of control. And he's parents are the same way!"

"Robert I have a contract for you!" Comes a call from the back of the room. He sighs,"I'll be seeing you. They usually give me contracts that are far away so don't know when I'll be back. Be good kids."

"Yes papa!" Me and Valdis say together.

As he walks out the four of us sit down and wait for my step mother (who I now call mama) cooks dinner for us. "It will be done real soon kids." She says to us. I close my eyes as a sudden spark of pain goes through my body. I frown but don't say anything thinking that I had imagined it.

After dinner I said goodbye to Valdis and left the sanctuary with Rhonda and Tori. "Bye see you later!" Rhonda says a few minutes later as she runs to her house where her grandfather waved to us. "Bye."

Soon I saw Tori and my mother's house and I sighed,"Bye Tori." I say as she goes to her door. "Bye Vicky."

I stand outside the door for a few minutes before I finally sigh and go inside. I tip toed around hoping to keep my mother unaware for as long as possible that I was back. I sigh in relief when I make it to my room. I quietly get into my bed and just lay there. This is how I spent most of my time when I'm here. If I'm not quite my mother beats me.

Sometime later I wake up and look around in confusion as I realized I had fallen asleep. That doesn't last long though as a yelp as another sharp pain like the one I felt before goes through my body. I fall asleep again and when I woke up I knew I was sick. Every part of my body hurt so bad that I couldn't help it as I screamed a high pitched scream so loud that my mother stormed up the stairs.

"What in oblivion is with all that noise?!" She snarled angrily.

I cry out again tears coming out against my will,"I'm sick mother."

"Oh well have fun." She says evilly and leaves me there alone.

I figured that I'd be better in a day or two, but as day two turned into day three, and day three turned into day four, I knew that I was in trouble. If I hadn't kept water by my bed at all times I would of died from lack of. My mother never bothered to check on me. All she did was yell at me from downstairs telling me to be quiet.

The pain was unbearable. I cried so much from it that no tears would come out. And to make matter worse, I was too sick to get up so I was laying in my own pee and poop and the smell made me throw up.

I don't know how long it's been now. Weeks maybe? But my father would never let me be here for weeks without checking on me.

Cheydinhal Sanctuary

When Robert returned after being gone for two weeks the last thing he expected was for his wife and youngest daughter to run up to him freaking out.

"Robert thank the gods you are finally back!" Valerie said in a panicky voice while Valdis cried.

"What the matter honey?" He asked in obvious concern.

"It's Vicky. She's been sick since the day you left and her mother won't let anyone in to see her!"

Robert frowned at this,"Sick with what?"

"I don't know."

At Vicky's mother's house

Olga had only checked on Vicky a couple of times since she had fallen sick. She had decided that she had better change her so no one would be suspicious if they checked on her. "Stupid child." She hissed under her breath as she disposed of the nasty waste after cleaning her up.

She was just washing her hand when there was a long bags in her door. She hissed under her breath again and went and opened the door. When she saw who was standing there she was glad that she had cleaned Vicky up when she did. "Robert you're back." She said in a mono tone voice.

"Where's Vicky?" He asked with a hint of a growl in his voice.

"In her bed."

Without another word Robert walked right by her and up the stairs into Vicky's room. He stopped dead and looked in opened mouthed shock and horror at his oldest daughter.

She didn't just look sick, she looked dead, except that she was still breathing. He picked her up gently in his arms and walked back down the stairs. "Has a healer been over?" He asked Olga.

"Of course." Olga lied easily as she always did. She was such a good lier that almost anyone would believe her.

"Well I'm going to take her to the Hull's."

"Alright keep me posted."Olga said pretending to care.

"Will do."

When Olga closed the door behind him she rolled her eyes. "I can't he bought that." She thought evilly to herself.

Back at the Cheydinhal Sanctuary a few minutes later. Everyone looked up and cried out in alarm and horror as Robert came running in with Vicky in his arms,"Darby come quickly!"

Darby Hull also know as Tori's father came running out from the other room. "Oh my gods!" He gasped and ran back shouting behind him,"Put her into a bed while I get supplies!"

A few hours later everyone was standing around Vicky's bed watching her anxiously. Kolby, Tori's older brother was helping to keep Vicky hydrated. Tori sat holding Valdis while Rhonda sat with her grandfather silently crying.

Robert walked back and forth around the room while Valerie looked on worried. Suddenly Darby gasped,"Oh my gods no!"

"What's wrong!?" Everyone in the room asked.

"She's not breathing!"

"NO!" Robert screamed.

"Claim down. I'm going to have to give her mouth to mouth. Don't worry I won't give up."

Robert looked at his friend and went and sat by his cousins who were just as worried as him. "Vicky's tough you'll see." Monet told him.

"I hope you're right Monet."

Everyone watched quietly as Darby worked to save Vicky. Just as he was starting to give up hope that he could save her she took a gasp of air. He signed in relief as did everyone else.

"Is she going to be alright now papa?" Tori asked. Darby signed and said,"I don't know. Only time will tell."

A/N- I hope you liked this chapter. This is the longest chapter I have ever. Written before ! :)